The largest genetic study of anxiety symptom severity to date has found the condition is not only heritable but shows significant genetic overlap with heart disease, gut disorders, and migraine, in findings researchers describe as an important step forward in understanding anxiety’s biological roots

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The question of whether anxiety is primarily a condition of the mind or of the body has never resolved cleanly, and a major new genetics study published yesterday does not resolve it either. What it does is sharpen the picture of how anxiety’s biological roots reach into territory that clinical psychiatry has not traditionally treated [...] The post The largest genetic study of anxiety symptom severity to date has found the condition is not only heritable but shows significant genetic overlap with heart disease, gut disorders, and migraine, in findings researchers describe as an important step forward in understanding anxiety’s biological roots appeared first on Space Daily .